Day 4 in Coyoacán, officially a neighborhood of Mexico City, but really kind of it’s own world. We start homeschooling the boys on Monday, so these first few days we’re spending like tourists. Yesterday we took a cab into downtown to visit the Castillo and Parque Chapultepec. The luxury of staying here for so long; we can just go do one thing, then go home when we’re tired. We’ll be back to see the anthropological museum and other parts of the park. The luxury also of not having started homeschooling yet: I can practice every morning (as soon as we hit 9am, to be nice to our neighbors).
Walking around, getting to know our neighborhood, some observations: SO MANY dogs here, and many get walked off-leash, but there are also still street dogs around (fewer than I’ve seen elsewhere in Mexico but still). Christopher went out early this AM and discovered a mass dog training session in the Zócalo- I was so bummed that I missed it! There’s a holiday coming up: Independence Day on 9/16, so once the month turned, everyone started decorating and there are flags EVERYWHERE. G and I had a conversation this morning about the idea of patriotism- it’s much more comfortable here where your government hasn’t been responsible for atrocities abroad, yet with the disappearances and cartel-related-corruption, it also inspires people to demand much more of their government I think. My very tiny two cents. We’ve been trying to follow the political news and there are a lot more interesting, powerful women, per capita, than in American politics! Google Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez to see what I mean.
